GM's Thread About Everything/GM's Thread About Nothing (22 Viewers)

[cosjobs]

Your top four are solid.

I really need to visit Montreal sometime.  Feels like a big hole in my travel experience.

Have you taken the ferry to Victoria? It was one of our favorite trips ever. 

 

[krista4]

Have you taken the ferry to Victoria? It was one of our favorite trips ever. 

Yes, and absolutely love Victoria.  GM should have had it on his list of favorite US cities, too.

 

[facook]

Yes, and absolutely love Victoria.  GM should have had it on his list of favorite US cities, too.

One of my favorite marriage memories is my wife and I visiting The Empress in Victoria on our trip up there.  Had tea, did the pinkie thing, ate the little weird sandwiches.  So out of our element.  Then they had this wine tasting thing where they let you actually drink it and we got a little over-served and giggled our way through the evening people watching and making small talk with the Somaliyay.

 

[MarvinTScamper]

One of my favorite marriage memories is my wife and I visiting The Empress in Victoria on our trip up there.  Had tea, did the pinkie thing, ate the little weird sandwiches.  So out of our element.  Then they had this wine tasting thing where they let you actually drink it and we got a little over-served and giggled our way through the evening people watching and making small talk with the Somaliyay.

 

[5-ish Finkle]

Nothing like a professional conversation over IM when the person has his text set to comic sams with a periwinkle colored font.

Kinison?  Morrill?  Reigel?

(ETA: At least it wasn't mother####ing Papyrus.  Comic Sans is horrible, it's true, but I'd cut a dude for using the abomination that is Papyrus.)

 

[5-ish Finkle]

I'm all for no more people coming to FL

I'm for getting rid of a few of the people already here (myself included).  The first two or three years living nearish the beach in the late 90s/early aughts was okay....but things changed pretty rapidly, especially over the past decade, in Central FL anyway.  Have lived here way too long, didn't think I was ever coming back when I left in '15 and have had it reinforced daily why this is not anywhere I want to spend the next 25+ years.  At least it's cheap, I guess. /soapbox

guy I work with spent time in Naples- and my wife got head-hunted for a position there. coworker liked it a lot. but florida.

Where they over the age of 55?  Cuz while Naples is nice enough to visit(it's Gulf Coast, after all)....unless you're waaaay into blue hair you prolly wanna take a hard pass.  Collier County is absolutely geriatric.

The Pink Pearl on Avenue road for dim sum

This sounds like a ninny bar.  Given you're speaking of Toronto, that makes it sounds even MORE like a ninny bar.

 

[5-ish Finkle]

My Top 5 Cities to Visit List would be something like:

1. San Francisco
2. NYC
3. Seattle
4. New Orleans
5. Charleston/Portland(OR)/Austin/DC/Montreal

If we are including places I've already been, mine would be pretty close to this.  Have visited Seattle and Charleston(and intend to go back to both at some point), have been in NO and Austin, but didn't get to see much.

Was only a 4 hour car trip from SF for a year and never got to go. :-|  Wife and I were going to take the train from Reno last summer, but weren't around long enough to get around to it.  Montreal definitely on my list.  Portland too.  Never been to NYC proper(airport only).  Have driven through DC a few times, but would probably enjoy checking it out more "up close" at some point.

Top 5 US Cities I Don't Care If I Ever See, or Don't Want to See Again:

1. Newark

2. Houston

3. Newark

4. Newark

5. Houston

 

[Osaurus]

Never thought I liked gin.  Until tonight. 

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Never thought I liked gin.  Until tonight. 

Tomorrow morning:  

When you get in your car, it will smell heavily of cheap pine deodorizer.  

It will be you.  

 

[El Floppo]

Never thought I liked gin.  Until tonight. 

Summertime drink of choice. Big fan. 

 

[Osaurus]

Summertime drink of choice. Big fan. 

Drinking a cucumber cooler at a martini bar in St. Augustine.  Very nice.

 

[El Floppo]

Tomorrow morning:  

When you get in your car, it will smell heavily of cheap pine deodorizer.  

It will be you.  

Than goodness I bike it to work.

 

[El Floppo]

Drinking a cucumber cooler at a martini bar in St. Augustine.  Very nice.

I take it back  Gaaaaaaay.

 

[cosjobs]

Never thought I liked gin.  Until tonight. 

It's great for when you want your vodka more mediciney

 

[Osaurus]

I take it back  Gaaaaaaay.

Ha

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Drinking a cucumber cooler at a martini bar in St. Augustine.  Very nice.

You do you, my friend. Don't listen to these blowhards. Enjoy!

 

[Rustoleum]

Just hiked 20 miles. We started with 6 scouts, lost 3 somewhere around mile 12 because the dumbasses (who all know better) got too far ahead and took the wrong turn at a junction, dropped  another one and his dad at mile 15 due to a bad ankle, then finished up and found the wayward three at the shuttle stop to go back to the cars.

I have a blister the size of two quarters on one heel, my butt hurts, my son has been hogging the shower for 30 minutes, and I don't think I can train my worthless dachshund to fetch me a beer.

Should've called it a day when we were ahead instead of trying to lose the last two scouts.

 

[5-ish Finkle]

Gin is basically floor stripper, and is probably the meanest of the "mean drunk" hard liquors.

 

[mr. furley]

Gin is basically floor stripper, and is probably the meanest of the "mean drunk" hard liquors.

tried to polish a bottle of Tanqueray on my 18th birthday

woke up on the floor of my friend's garage

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Not for me. I can roll pretty mellow drinking G&Ts all day. Whiskey and Tequila are the ones that gets me into trouble.

 

[OrtonToOlsen]

Just hiked 20 miles. We started with 6 scouts, lost 3 somewhere around mile 12 because the dumbasses (who all know better) got too far ahead and took the wrong turn at a junction, dropped  another one and his dad at mile 15 due to a bad ankle, then finished up and found the wayward three at the shuttle stop to go back to the cars.

I have a blister the size of two quarters on one heel, my butt hurts, my son has been hogging the shower for 30 minutes, and I don't think I can train my worthless dachshund to fetch me a beer.

Should've called it a day when we were ahead instead of trying to lose the last two scouts.

Dogs are smarter than we are.

 

[OrtonToOlsen]

Drinking a cucumber cooler at a martini bar in St. Augustine.  Very nice.

WHAT'S YOUR HUSBAND DRINKING?

loooooooollllll

 

[Osaurus]

WHAT'S YOUR HUSBAND DRINKING?

loooooooollllll

Ohhhhhhhhhh

 

[Osaurus]

Not for me. I can roll pretty mellow drinking G&Ts all day. Whiskey and Tequila are the ones that gets me into trouble.

Tried a mule for the first time with a good tequila last weekend and it was pretty good.  :mindblown: Mrs. O has had a couple and now we're heading back up St. George for more.

 

[cosjobs]

Tried a mule for the fist time with a good tequila last weekend and it was pretty good.  :mindblown: Mrs. O has had a couple and now we're heading back up St. George for more.

I've never been so drunk that I fisted a mule.

 

[kevzilla]

I've never been so drunk that I fisted a mule.

Don't believe you

 

[mr roboto]

Don't believe you

A llama maybe but a mule?

 

[Osaurus]

Post fixed.

 

[kevzilla]

Screw you guys, I'm going to the club. If I walk in there with, say, $221, how long before it's gone? Drinks on credit card.

 

[MarvinTScamper]

Gin is basically floor stripper, and is probably the meanest of the "mean drunk" hard liquors.

I hate to break it to you, but gun is vodka run one more time thru the still, this time thru the botanicals (juniper, aspen, cedar, etc).  That's it.  That's the only difference. 

 

[5-ish Finkle]

I hate to break it to you, but gun is vodka run one more time thru the still, this time thru the botanicals (juniper, aspen, cedar, etc).  That's it.  That's the only difference. 

Yeah, I'm well aware.  It's still swill to me.  YMMV.

 

[MarvinTScamper]

Yeah, I'm well aware.  It's still swill to me.  YMMV.

There's a lot of cheap #### out there.  But yeah, you do you. 

 

[Mr.Pack]

tried to polish a bottle of Tanqueray on my 18th birthday

woke up on the floor of my friend's garage

Went to a friends wedding and got completely obliterated on Gin. Had like 2 or 12 Gin on the rocks BEFORE dinner. Kept drinking throughout the night. Wife left me in the car that night.

Thought they had a DJ.......they had a band. Guess I got up on stage and sang with them, still have no memory of that. Thought they had a sit-down dinner.........it was a buffet.

A week later, wife and I were shopping. Saw a teenage girl on the other side of the mall, and told my wife she looked familiar.......... She said, yea, ya #######, she was our babysitter for Henry's wedding.

 

[El Floppo]

Tried a mule for the first time with a good tequila last weekend and it was pretty good.  :mindblown: Mrs. O has had a couple and now we're heading back up St. George for more.

Good tequila is surprisingly good to sip straight. Bad tequila, opposite.

 

[El Floppo]

I'm a gin fan, but have never had it straight. Tonic and lime, martini, muddled with mint, most ways... but straight just sounds wrong.

 

[RC94]

I once split a bottle of Jagermeister with a friend.  It was about 20 shots each.  The night went something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9z1PPVtJTM

 

[El Floppo]

If you don't have a tequila scar somewhere on your body/psyche then you still have some drinkin' to do.

The good stuff heals all scars.

 

[Mr.Pack]

I'm a gin fan, but have never had it straight. Tonic and lime, martini, muddled with mint, most ways... but straight just sounds wrong.

Had a friend back in the day that owned a bar. He would only buy you shots of gin. Taste was acquired back then.

 

[kevzilla]

These hoes ain't loyal 

 

[El Floppo]

These hoes ain't loyal 

Burma!

 

[kevzilla]

Actual dollar amount $321. Left 2.5 hours later with $11. 

 

[RC94]

I slept in this morning and got 5.5 hours of sleep.  A full half hour more than the maximum I normally get.

 

[Abraham]

So it's not like NYC at all?

I'm actuaslky leaving Toronto on a flight in 10 minutes. Been here for 4 days.  This city is fantastic. Reminds me more of Chicago than New York.  Plus it's close to Detroit!

 

[krista4]

I'm actuaslky leaving Toronto on a flight in 10 minutes. Been here for 4 days.  This city is fantastic. Reminds me more of Chicago than New York.  Plus it's close to Detroit!

BAbe!

Toronto reminds me a lot of Chicago, too.

 

[MarvinTScamper]

BAbe!

Toronto reminds me a lot of Chicago, too.

Where are the awesome sections of Chicago?   I dont recall them. 

 

[mr roboto]

Where are the awesome sections of Chicago?   I dont recall them. 

Wat?  

 

[MarvinTScamper]

Wat?  

I've been downtown.  Love it.  Tell me about the amazing sections of town outside of downtown, like Toronto had.  

 

[mr roboto]

I've been downtown.  Love it.  Tell me about the amazing sections of town outside of downtown, like Toronto had.  

Lincoln Park, Wrigleyville, Lakeview, Streeterville, Logan Square, West Loop...

Hell, I would argue that the sheer quality and variety of neighborhoods in Chicago are more impressive than the loop is. Unless you're a tourist who comes only to be slack jawed by the observation deck at the Sears tower. 

When I lived in the burbs we would virtually never visit the Loop unless we had family members in town. It was always hitting up one of the neighborhoods. 

Full Disclosure - I've never been to Toronto. 

 

[Limp Ditka]

Where are the awesome sections of Chicago?   I dont recall them. 

 

[kevzilla]

Sitting in a minor emergency center with my bipolar friend, though I doubt they can do much about her neuropathic pain. She called at 7:45, waking me from a dead sleep. No idea when I get my day back. FML.